Fate is dynamic, not static, though opinions vary.
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The population talks about fate. They come to a point and stay there, saying that it is their fate. This belief in fate is too deep to know if something is otherwise. For them, fate is final, as if the battle of life is over.
I tracked down my own case to study. Being in a traditional and convergent environment, it was easy for me to check the reality of the play between my decisions and changes of destinations at different stages in my life. I can’t fix it, but I learned how my decisions influenced my moving forward in life.
I also compared the journey of my life with that of other aspirants in the same environment with the same opportunities and their final standing in their lives. Some are far ahead of me in career and caliber, while many are out of competition without facing the challenges.
Fate is mentioned in literature across cultures and eras. The majority quotes all those narratives when they are below social lines for any reason. What I have observed is that normally, evaders of struggle and individuals surrendering to outside forces take refuge in the name of fate.
"Destiny is a worrying concept. I do not want to be fated; I want to choose," says Jeanette Winterson.
As said, the tough thing to digest is that fate is a choice. When it is accepted, it can be said that fate is a concept, not a closure.
Once we allow the limitations to operate, we label them fate and stop working for change, and the challenges ahead become mountains.
If we believe that fate is dynamic, mistakes, failures, criticism, envy, and hate become milestones in our path of priorities. We care less about conditioning and more about inching towards ambition.
Water flows into the river without knowing how much to travel. Likewise, a man of mission keeps evolving and going forward without counting the stones and turns in the way.
While reading the narrative of J. R. Lowell, I learned that fate loves the fearless and that we need enough energy to conquer fear, which is the mother of our cowardice.
In my analysis, we may infer that our fears prevent our fate from becoming dynamic. Because many layers of fear are covering our seed of fate, our position resembles cocoons that have to emerge as butterflies.
Without referring to many views on this point, any adult can check her or his own journey through life and the role of choices in rising or falling in life from time to time.
I have a long list of failings, and I endorse that all of them happened on account of my decisions, not those of my relatives, friends, or coaches.
Any individual is solely responsible for what she or he becomes. At all steps, options are many, and for anything, personal decisions are the roots.
Fitting in obsolete social norms is a huge error, and people hurriedly use the term "fate "to protect themselves from webs of deficiencies.
Huge dependence on others at the beginning of real life is also a major cause of using fate as a weapon to prove there is nothing wrong with people believing in fate.
We are reluctant to invest our time, energy, and attention in the challenges ahead. Rather, we keep our excuses ready every time. We are looking outside the world but never inside, making us fate-minded.
It is never too late to bloom. Come out of the cage of fate and take on challenges. The better fate is waiting for our action to strike.
We are born to be responsible and forward-looking, and not for chanting; it is ordained.
